[Magdalen] Another "worthless" food.

[Jay Weigel]

Until the late ex and I separated, for many years we bought our Christmas
tree from a gentleman from Michigan who hauled his harvest to our town and
set up in a vacant lot across from the local farmer's market. He had some
kind of family connection in our town, which was why he came there. Anyway,
he would set up there and sell until they were gone, or until Christmas,
whichever came first. One year he gave away blue spruce seedlings about a
foot tall. We took two and planted them in our front yard. One didn't make
it, but the other is now a full-grown tree. I remember how excited I was
when it got to be somewhere between 18 inches and 2 feet tall and the late
ex decided it was big enough for its first string of Christmas lights. Now
it would take a tall ladder and more than a few strings to light it!

On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apparently Michigan is now (and perhaps for a while) offering tax rebates
> for planting acreages  with various pine varieties. It was quite lovely to
> see random wooded acres with large stands of trees. I'm not sure if they
> may eventually be harvested or thinned but I do think that it is partly a
> green imitative for air quality.
> Lynn
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> www.ichthysdesigns.com
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> When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would
> not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you
> gave me'. attributed to Erma Bombeck
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> On Oct 2, 2016, at 3:40 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 10/2/2016 3:09:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> polycarpa3 at ckt.net writes:
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> I got  several hundred dollars from some  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 40 years ago -
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> I had my "wild 80 (acres) in Wisconsin which was mostly
> covered with mature 80' - 100' Eastern White Pines (Pinus
> strobus) and Red/Norway Pines (Pinus resinosa).  They were
> awfully crowded, and I had an expert lumber guy look at them.
> He arranged for a very talented lumberman who cut out
> $8,000 worth of trees with amazing surgical precision.  there
> is a good market for such pine, and when stained well is
> virtually identical with Western Red Cedar which is double the
> cost.
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> It was an unexpected bonanza back at a time when I was putting
> two children through college.
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> I should hasten to add that this was not a virgin pine stand, but
> rather a fine second growth grove.
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> David S.
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